Bill-of-Material Post-Processing Macros

Overview

The bill-of-material post-processing macros are divided into two groups based on their functionality. The reporting macros generate miscellaneous reports from the Indented BOM output data set of PROC BOM, or a data set that contains indented bills of material. The reports include:

Single-level bill of material
Single-level where-used list
Indented bill of material
Indented where-used list
Summarized bill of material
Summarized where-used list

See the section "Indented BOM Data Set" in Chapter 2, "The BOM Procedure," for details on the Indented BOM data set.

The transactional macros perform specialized transactions for maintaining and updating the bills of material for a product, product line, plant, or company. The transactions include:

Copy-and-paste
Multiple-delete
Multiple-replace
Same-as-except

Used correctly, these transactions make it possible to avoid some clerical work and reduce the time to maintain the bills of material. However, if the transactions are used incorrectly, it may take hours to reconstruct what was changed automatically in a matter of seconds (Landvater and Gray 1989).

Overview

Input Data Sets

Software Requirements

Calling the Macros

Output Data Sets

Macro Variables